Evaluative Report of the Department of Biosciences - Jamia ...

Evaluative Report of the Department of Biosciences

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1. Name of the Department : Biosciences 2. Year of establishment: 1985 3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the university? Yes, Faculty of Natural Sciences 4. Names of Programmes offered (UG, PG, M. Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D.,

etc.) S. No. Name of the Programme Type of Programme Annual Intake 1. B.Sc. Biosciences Regular, Full time 40 2. M.Sc. Bioscience Regular, Full time 30 3. M.Sc. Biochemistry Self financing 30 4. Ph.D. Biosciences Regular, Full time As per UGC 2009 rules

5. Interdisciplinary courses and departments involved: None 6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. None 7. Details of programmes / courses discontinued, if any, with reasons: None 8. Annual/ Semester/Choice Based Credit System All the courses in the Department of Biosciences are in Semester system mode.

9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments None

10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned and filled (Professors/Associate Professors/Asst. Professors) S. No. Post Sanctioned Filled Actual Including (CAS and MPS) 1. Professor 3 2 09 2. Associate Professors 5 5 02 3. Asst. Professors 8 7 5

11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation and specialisation (D.Sc./D.Litt./ Ph.D./M.Phil., etc.)

S. No. Name of Programme Examination System 1. B.Sc. Biosciences Semester 2. M.Sc. Biosciences Semester 3. M.Sc. Biochemistry Semester 4. Ph.D. Biosciences Course Work- Semester

S. No Name Qualifi-cation

Desig-nation

Speciali-zation

No. of Years of Expe-rience

No. of Ph.D. student guided for the last 5 years Awarded

In Progress

1. Prof. Jawaid A. Khan

Ph.D. Professor Plant Virology 20 05 06

2. Prof. Arif Ali Ph.D. Professor Molecular Genetics

29 22 07

3. Prof. Seemi Ph.D. Professor Biochemistry 29 10 07


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12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, faculty, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors, None

13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information

Farhat Basir 4. Prof. Sayed A.

Husain Ph.D. Professor Human Mol.

Gentics 25 25 04

5. Prof. Luqman A.Khan

Ph.D. Professor Biochemistry 20 08 05

6. Prof. Tasneem Fatma

Ph.D. Professor Cyanobacteria & Algae

27 15 07

7. Dr. M. Moshahid A Rizvi

Ph.D. Professor Molecular Oncology and Therapeutics

16 13 08

8. Dr. Maryam Sardar

Ph.D. Associate Professor

Protein Chemistry

12 02 06

9. Dr.Qazi M Rizwanul Haq

Ph.D. Professor Microbiology & Plant Biotechnology

14 14 06

10. Dr. M. Aman Jairajpuri

Ph.D. Professor Protein Structure-Function and Diseases

14 04 5

11. Dr. Nikhat Manzoor (on extraordinary leave)

Ph.D. Associate Professor

Biochemistry 12 5 08

12. Mr. Amit Kumar Verma (on study leave)

M.Sc. Assistant Professor

Instrumentation

08 0 0

13. Dr. Nadeem Ahmad

Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Mathematics, Bioinformatics

07 0 0

14. Dr. Nida Jamil Khan


Bioinformatics 06 0 01

15. Dr. Mohammad Abid


Organic Chemistry

04 0 04

16. Dr. Mohd. Mohsin


Plant Physiology & Nano-biotechnolgy

01 0 0


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S. No. Program Name of Temporary Faculty Remarks 1. B. Sc Biosciences No temporary faculty, guest teachers are

appointed against vacancies (Classes taken by them are given under remarks column)

12.5% 2. M. Sc Biosciences 12.5% 3. M. Sc Biochemistry 30.0%

14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio Average student to teacher ratio for the last five years: 11.44

15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned and filled

S.No. Sanctioned Filled Actual 1. Technicians 1 1 0 2. Senior lab Assistant 2 2 2 3. Junior lab Assistant 3 3 4 4. Lab Assistant 4 4 4 5. Peon 1 0 0 2. Clerk 1 1 1 3. Store Keeper 1 1 1

* One position on transfer 16. Research thrust areas recognized by funding agencies

Molecular Genetics, Plant Virology, Cyanobacterial and Algal Biotechnology, Drug Designing, Protein Conformational Diseases, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Nano-biotechnology, Fungal Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Cardiovascular Cell Signalling

17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding agencies and c)

Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies and grants received project-wise. Ongoing/completed Research Projects S. No. Project Name Principal

Investigator/ Co-investigator(s)

Year Funding Agency

Amount Sanctioned (Amount in Lakh)

1. Apoptosis and Pathogenicity Modulation in Candida albicans by Curcumin and Lead Molecules of Tulsi Essential Oil

Nikhat Manzoor (PI) Prof. Luqman A. Khan (Co-PI)

2009 2012 ICMR Rs. 26.50

2. Understanding the effect of chemical Chaperones in preventing serine protease inhibitor polymerization

Dr. Mohamad Aman Jairajpuri

2008 2012 DBT Rs. 12.67


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3. Analysis of Structural and Mechanistic Basis of Novel Antithrombin Variants in Indian Families with Thrombosis

Dr. Mohamad Aman Jairajpuri (Under Extended mode)

2011 2014 ICMR Rs. 23 .00

4. Molecular evolution of Parkins gene in cervical cancer

Dr. M. Moshahid Alam Rizvi

2012 2015 UGC Rs. 10.00

5. Design and Synthesis of Novel Peptido-mimetic Antibacterial Agents.

Dr. Mohammad Abid

2012

2015

DST

Rs. 18.50

6. Synthesis and Pharmacodynamic Studies in the Efficacy of Diketo acid and Triazole based Antifungal Agents.

Dr. Mohammad Abid

2012

2015 UGC

Rs. 10.38

7. Effect of Abiotic Stresses on the Expression of Different MicroRNA-Targeted Transcription Factors in Rice

Dr. Qazi Rizwanul Haq

2012 2015 UGC Rs. 10.69

8. EMR project entitled “Screening of Anticancer potential of Indian Medicinal Plants”- Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of Indian (Department of AYUSH) sanction number.

Dr. Sayed Akhtar Husain

2014 CCRUM Rs. 30 Lakhs

9. DBT (Twining project in collaboration with Gauhati University) entitled –“ Study the associative role of


2013 DBT

Total cost = Rs 1.1688 Crore JMI share = Rs 47.80 lakhs


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alteration(s) in cell cycle controller EZH2, tumor suppressorRUNX3,DNA repair gene MGMT and local food habits with the predisposition and severity of esophageal cancer’’

10. DBT (Twining project- in collaboration with Gauhati University) entitled –“Screening of genetic and immunological factors in Human Papilloma Virus Infection induced Cervical cancer: A North East India based study”


2013 Total cost = Rs 81.63 Lakhs JMI Share =28.18 Lakhs

11. Comparative study of ESBL producing and K. Pneumoniae from purified tap water and unpurified samples of Yamuna.

Dr. Arif Ali

2014

--

MEoF and Climate change

Rs 35 Lakhs

12. Biosynthesized nanoparticles as antibacterial agent against water borne pathogen bacteria (APPROVED)

Dr. Meryam Sardar

2015

--

ICMR (Approved)

Rs 27.5 Lakhs


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18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and grants received

a) All India collaboration S.No. Project Name Principal

Investigator/ Co-investigator(s)

Year Funding Agency

Amount Sanctioned (Amount in Lakh)

1. Apoptosis and Pathogenicity Modulation in Candida albicans by Curcumin and Lead Molecules of Tulsi Essential Oil

Nikhat Manzoor (PI)and Prof. Luqman A. Khan (Co-PI) With Dr. Ima Culata Xess Department of Microbiology AIIMS, New-Delhi

2009 2012 ICMR Rs. 26.50

2. Analysis of Structural and Mechanistic Basis of Novel Antithrombin Variants in Indian Families with Thrombosis

Dr. Mohamad Aman Jairajpuri With Dr. Renu Saxena and Dr. M. Mahapatra, Department of Hematology, AIIMS, New-Delhi.

2011 2014 ICMR Rs. 23.00

3. Molecular evaluation of PTEN gene in colorectal cancer patients from Northern India

Dr.Moshahid Alam Rizvi

2008 2011 DBT, New Delhi

Rs. 20.00

4. Investigation on Probiotic and Therapeutic potential of certain plants of dietary nature on mouse enteric microbes and jejunum stem cells

Dr. Moshahid Alam Rizvi

2007 2011 DRDO, New Delhi

Rs. 32.00


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5. Role of molecular markers NF-kB, Role of NF-kB, cytokines IL-1a, IL-6, IL-8, TN-alpha, cox-2 and p53 for assessing the malignant potential to oral cancer and their association to therapeutic response in patient with Oral RIM.


2013 2016 UGC, India as a Co-PI

Rs 13.45 Lakhs

b) International: None 19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICSSR, etc.; total

grants received. 125 Lakhs S. No. Programme Coordinator Amount Year Sanctioned 1. DST-FIST Prof. Jawaid A. Khan 65 lakhs 2010 2. UGC-SAP Prof. Seemi F. Basir 45 lakhs 2011 3. UGC Non SAP - 15 lakhs 2009

20. Research facility / centre with • State recognition • National recognition None • International recognition

21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies None

22. Publications: For details please see Annexure- Publications

S. No. Item Total Numbers 1. Number of papers published in peer reviewed

journals (2008-2014) 332

2. Number of Papers published in Conferences Nil 3. Monographs Nil 4. Chapters in Books 3 5. Edited Books Nil 6. Laboratory manuals - 7. Articles in Magazine Nil 8. Editorials - 9. Books with ISBN with details of Publisher 04 10. Number listed in International Database (For e.g.

Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social


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Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) 11. Citation Index range/Average 0-81

12. SNIP 0.00—2.3 13. SJR 0.01-0.874 14. Impact Factor Range/Average 0.2-11.03 15. h-index 0-15

Publication Summary (Journals): Details given as annexure-1 (2008-2014)

23. Details of patents and income generated None 24. Areas of consultancy and income generated None 25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories in India and abroad

Faculty Programme Dr. Nikhat Manzoor Visited Molecular Microbiology Lab, Department of Oral

Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Otago, Dunedin-9054, New Zealand as a BOYSCAST Fellow (2008-09)

Dr. Mohammad Abid Indian Academy of Sciences-Summer Research Fellowship for a period of 02 months with Prof. S. Chandrasekaran, Department of Organic Chemistry, IISc Bangalore during May 2011-July 2011.

S.No. Name of Faculty No. of Publications

H index

Citation Index Range/Average

Impact Factor Range/Average

1. Dr. Jawaid Ahmad Khan 16 11 0-11 0.57-2.8 2. Dr. Arif Ali 38 17 0-52 0.4-05 3. Dr. Seemi Farhat Basir 36 17 0-39 01-11 4. Dr. Sayed Akhtar Husain 32 25 0-41 0.6-7.2 5. Dr. Luqman Ahmad Khan 40 17 0-60 0.6-3.3 6. Dr. Moshahid Alam Rizvi 53 12 0-41 0.5-9 7. Dr. Tasneem Fatma 18 05 0-47 0.6-4.8 8. Dr. Qazi Mohd Rizwanul

Haq 34 15 0-38 0.36-4.37

9. Dr. Mohamad Aman Jairajpuri

16 8 0-26 0-4.1

10. Dr. Meryam Sardar 35 12 0-15 0-4.8 11. Dr. Nikhat Manzoor

(On Long EOL) 47 13 0-60 0.878- 3.2

12. Dr. Nadeem Ahmad - - - - 13. Dr. Mohammad Abid 07 11 0-53 0.5-4.7 14. Dr. Nida Jamil Khan

(On CCL) 02 - 5-7 2.1-3.7

15. Amit Kumar Verma (On Study Leave)

01 - 35 3.5

16. Dr. Mohd. Mohsin 05 02 0-10 3.1-6.5


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26. Faculty serving in

a) National committees b) International committees c) Editorial Boards d) any other (please specify)

Dr. Jawaid A. Khan: 1. Life member of Indian Virological Society 2. Life member of Indian Phytopathological Society 3. Biochinica et Biophysics Acta (BBA- General subjects) (Reviewer) 4. Journal of Phytopathology (Reviewer) 5. Current Sciences (Reviewer) 6. Indian Journal of Virology (Reviewer)

Prof. Luqman Ahmad Khan: 1. Journal of Amino acids (Reviewer) 2. African Journal of Biotechnology (Reviewer)

Prof. Tasneem Fatima: 1. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology (Referee) 2. Environmental Monitoring And Assessment (Referee) 3. Biomass and Energy (Referee) 4. Physics and Chemistry of Earth (Referee) 5. Journal of Applied Phycology (Member and Referee) 6. Phycological Society of India (Member and Referee) 7. Association of Microbiologist of India (Life member) 8. Indian Science Congress Association (Life member) 9. Indian Women Scientist Association (Member) 10. Third Word Organization for Women in Science (Member) 11. Asia – Pacific Society for Applied Phycology (Member) 12. Society of Environmental Scientists, Department of Botany, Delhi University (Life member)

Dr. Arif Ali: 1. Member, Asian Federation of Biotechnology 2. Member European Federation of Biotechnology 3. Life member of the Indian Society of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 4. IARI, New Delhi. 5. Life member of the Indian Society of Biotechnology, New Delhi. 6. Life member of the Association of Microbiologists of India. 7. Life member of the Indian Journal of Microbiology. 8. Life member of the Indian Society of Cell Biology. 9. Life member of the International Association of Environmental Botanists. 10. Life member of the India Association of Plant Genetic Resources.

Dr. Seemi Farhat Basir: 1. Member of Staff Selection Committee, Govt. of India. 2. Member of Selection Committee, J.M.I. and Kashmir University. 3. Member of UGC five year plan assessment committee. 4. Referee for Journal of Molecular Cell Biology. 5. Referee for Human and Experimental Toxicology

Dr. M. Moshahid Alam Rizvi


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1. Life member Indian Society of Parasitology 2. Member faculty DST INSPIRE 3. Member MAAS

Dr. Qazi Rizwanul Haq: 1. Member of Indian Phytopathological Society 2. Member of Indian Society of Mycology & Plant Pathology 3. Member of Indian Virological Society 4. Member of Association of Microbiologists of India

Dr. Meryam Sardar: 1. Member of Society of Biological Chemists

Dr. Aman Jairajpuri: 1. Society of Biological Chemist, Life Member 2. IBS-Indian Biophysical society-Life member

Dr. Nikhat Manzoor: 1. Life Member, Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI). 2. Life Member, Society of Biological Chemists

Dr. Mohammad Abid: 1. Chemical Research Society of India (Life membership no. LM 1410) since 2011. 2. Former Member -American Chemical Society (2009) 3. IUPAC Sponsored Affiliate Member since 2009. 4. Referee for Arabian Journal of Chemistry

Amit Kumar Verma: 1. Lifetime member of Indian Society of Human Genetics (ISHG).

27. Faculty recharging strategies: Faculties are recharged through refresher, orientation, conferences and workshop programmes.

Prof. Tasneem Fatima 1. Resource person: INSPIRE Programme, DST, Govt. of India.

Dr. Qazi Rizwan-ul-Haq 1. Subject Expert in workshop for the Development of Hindi Dictionary of Biotechnology,

organized by the Commission for Scientific & Technical Terminology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. from 28th January – 30th January2009, at the Department of Biotechnology Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

2. One week Quality Improvement Programme (QIP) course on Advances in wastewater treatment from 10-15 Oct 2011 at Chemical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Nikhat Manzoor 1. 1st RC in Basic Sciences (Interdisciplinary), organized by UGC-Academic Staff College, Jamia

Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110025 from 6th May to 27th May, 2011 2. Special Summer School organized by UGC-Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia,

New Delhi-110025 from 30th June to 19th July 2008 (Orientation/Refresher Course) Dr. Nadeem Ahmad

1. 96th four week Orientation program from 14th April to 13th May, 2011 organized by UGC-ASC, JMI.

2. 2nd three week Refresher Course in Basic Sciences (Interdisciplinary) from 3rd May to 23rd


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May, 2012 organized by UGC-ASC, JMI. Dr. Mohammad Abid

1. Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) for a period of 18 months with Prof. Isabelle ARTAUD, UMR-8601 at University Paris Descartes, Paris, France during Sept. 2008 to Jan. 2010.

2. Participated in the 100th four week Orientation Programme, organized by UGC-Academic Staff College, JMI, New Delhi from 09th April to 05th May, 2012.

Amit Kumar Verma 1. 85th Orientation Program (5th August – 2nd September, 2008) organized by Academic Staff

College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. 2. 2nd Refresher course in Basic Sciences (Interdisciplinary) from 3rd – 23rd May, 2012, organized

by Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Dr. Nida Jameel

1. 93rd four week Orientation Programme organized by UGC-ASC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi(20th July-16th August, 2010).

28. Student projects Prof. Tasneem Fatima

M.Sc dissertation: 20 Collaborative projects: 00

Dr. Arif Ali M.Sc dissertation: 21 Collaborative projects: 00

Dr. Seemi Farhat Basir M.Sc dissertation: 25 Collaborative projects: 25

Dr. Luqman A. Khan M.Sc dissertation: 25 Collaborative projects: 30

Dr. Jawaid Ahmad Khan M.Sc dissertation: 07 Collaborative projects: 00


M.Sc dissertation: 16 Collaborative projects: 00

Dr. Qazi Rizwan-ul-Haq M.Sc dissertation: 16 Collaborative projects: 00

Dr. Meryam Sardar M.Sc dissertation: 13 Collaborative projects: 00

Dr. Mohamad Aman Jairajpuri M.Sc dissertation: 14 Collaborative projects: 02

Dr. Nikhat Manzoor M.Sc dissertation: 13


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Collaborative projects: 06 Dr. Mohammad Abid

M.Sc Dissertation: 03 Collaborative projects: 00

29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by Faculty, Doctoral / post doctoral fellows and Students

S. No Name of Faculty Name of the Award

Awarding Authority

Year and other details

1. Prof. Arif Ali UGC-BSR one time

UGC 2012

2. Prof. Arif Ali Rajiv Gandhi Samajratan Award

All India National Congress Association

2011


Best Poster Award to abstract

Asian Biophysics Association

2011, ABA meeting, New-Delhi


Best Poster Awardto abstract

International Symposium on Chemistry and Biology of Serpin

2011, University of North Carolina, USA


Best Poster Award to abstract

International Conference in Bioinformatics

2011, Center for Research in Interdisciplinary Basic Sciences. JMI, New-Delhi, India

6. Dr. Nikhat Manzoor BOYSCAST Fellow

DST 2008-2009

9. Dr. Mohammad Abid

Young Scientist DST (SERB) 2012-2015

30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national / international)

with details of outstanding participants, if any, None

31. Code of ethics for research followed by the departments We have following ethical committees for conducting research and teaching: 1. Human Research ethical committee 2. Bio safety committee 3. Animal ethics committee These committees rigorously evaluate scientific and ethical content of research projects as also student PhD synopsis. In addition to above we implement Jamia ordinances and anti-plagiarism software for academic standards and purity.

32. Student profile course-wise : (Aggregate of 5 years)


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S. No Name of the Course Applications received

Selected Male Female

Pass percentage Male Female

1. B.Sc. (Biosciences) 3907 85 114 100% 100% 2. M.Sc. (Biosciences) 2279 55 74 100% 100% 3. M. Sc.

(Biochemistry) 1502 46 56 100% 100%

33. Diversity of students (Average of 5 years) S. No. Name of the

Course % of students from the same university

students from universities within the State including JMI

students from universities outside the State

students from other countries

1. B.Sc. (Bioscience)

Not available 39% 61% Nil

2. M.Sc. (Bioscience)

Not available 49% 48.7% 2.30%

3. M. Sc. (Biochemistr)

Not available 40% 57.1% 2.90%

34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defence Services examinations. NET, SET,

GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise

S. No. Name of student Year Qualifying Exam. 1 Sweta Shaily 2008 CSIR JRF 2007 2 Yumnam Priyadarshini 2008 CSIR-JRF 2008 3 Reena Kumari 2008 CSIR-UGC-JRF, 2007 4 Mohammad Shoeb Alam 2008 ICMR-JRF 2007 5 Sumedha Sachar 2008 CSIR-UGC-JRF, 2007,DBT-JRF 2007 and

ICMR-JRF 2008 6 Shah Ubaid Ullah 2008 CSIR-UGC-JRF, June and Dec 2007; DBT-JRF

2007 and ICMR-JRF 2008 7 Amarjeet Singh 2008 CSIR-UGC-JRF, 2008 8 Bhavna Yadav 2008 CSIR-UGC-JRF, 2008 9 M Hussain 2008 CSIR-UGC-JRF, 2008 10 Anwar Alam 2008 ICMR-JRF 2008 11 Kuhulika Bhalla 2008 ICMR-JRF 2008 12 Anoop Kumar Pal 2008 CSIR-JRF 2007and GATE 2007

GRE-University of Massachusetts (USA)-2008 13 Faiza Amber Siddiqui 2008 DBT-JRF 2007, NET paper I June 2008 and

GATE 2008


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14 Farhan Ahmad 2008 DBT-JRF 2007 and CSIR-JRF, ICMR-JRF 2008 15 Manindra Singh 2008 DBT-JRF, CSIR-JRF, ICMR-JRF and GATE, all

in 2008 16 Manish Sharma 2008 DBT-JRF, 2008 17 Niraj 2008 NET paper I June 2008 18 Priti Kataria 2008 UGC-JRF 2007 and NET-LS Dec 2007 19 Pretty Garg 2008 CSIR-JRF 2007, DBT-JRF 2008 and

GATE 2008 20 Swati Garg 2008 CSIR-JRF 2007, DBT-JRF 2008 and

GATE 2008 GRE-University of Winsconson

21 Apoorv Sharma 2008 NET-JRF 2007, NET-LS 2008 22 Nikita Chopra 2008 NET-LS 2007, CSIR-JRF 2008 23 Mohsin Khan 2008 NET-LS 2007 and CSIR-2008, 24 Yogesh Rawat 2008 NET-LS 2007, CSIR-JRF 2008 25 Edwina Thomas 2008 GATE 2007, CSIR-JRF 2008 26 Asha Mishra 2008 NET-LS 2008 27 Poonam Gupta 2008 ICMR-JRF, 2008 28 Mohd Khubaib 2008 NET-LS 2008 29 Aashiq Hussain 2008 CSIR-JRF 2008 30 Kusum Narwal 2008 CSIR-JRF 2008 31 Ratnagarba Desai 2008 CSIR-JRF 2008 32 Asma 2008 NET-LS 2008 33 Savita Bansal 2008 CSIR-JRF 2008 34 Ekansh Mittal 2008 CSIR- JRF 2008, GATE 2008 35 Sapna 2008 CSIR-JRF 2008 36 Nitika Rani 2008 CSIR-JRF 2008 37 Deependra Pratap Singh 2008 CSIR-JRF 2008 38 Nehul Saxena 2008 UGC-JRF 2008 39 Shashi Pratap Singh 2008 UGC-LS 2008 40 Arti Kumari 2008 UGC-LS 2008 41 Vishi Shandli 2008 UGC-LS 2008 42 Zafar Mehmood 2008 NET-LS 2008 43 Shweta Mediratta 2008 CSIR-JRF 2008 44 Sattyanarayan Deep 2008 CSIR JRF 2008 45 Mansi Sethi 2008 NET-LS 2008 –GRE: 1380 (U of Kentucky USA-

2010) 46 Mohd Khubaib 2009 ICMR-2009, CSIR-JRF-2009 47 Apoorv Sharma 2009 CSIR-JRF-2009 48 Sheeza Khan 2009 NET-UGC-JRF 49 Mohsin Khan 2009 CSIR-JRF-2009 50 Mohd Yasser 2009 UGC-JRF 51 Himanshu Joshi 2009 CSIR –JRF-2009 52 Kusum Nariwal 2009 CSIR-JRF 2009


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35. Student progression: S. No Student progression Percentage against enrolled 1. UG to PG 25% 2. PG to M.Phil. 0%

(no M.Phil.) 3. PG to Ph.D. 10% 4. Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral Nil 5. Employed

• Campus selection • Other than campus recruitment

No information

6. Entrepreneurs No information

53 Abhijit Mishra 2009 ICMR-JRF 2009 54 Zafar Mahmood 2010 University of Wurzberg (Germany) 55 Md. Meraj Khan 2010 Univ. of Turkoo, Finland 56 Asma 2010 CSIR-JRF, INSPIRE-JRF 57 Sunil Kumar Dubey 2010 CSIR-JRF 58 Subodh Joshi 2010 UGC-JRF 59 Abhijit Mishra 2010 UGC-LS, ICMR-JRF 60 Udeep Chawla 2010 GRE-University of Arizona (USA) 61 Priti Kataria 2009 GRE-University of Massachusetts (USA) 62 Angad Kumar 2011 CSIR-JRF 63 Muddasser Azam 2010 CSIR-JRF 64 Pankaj 2011 CSIR-JRF 65 Himani 2011 CSIR-JRF 66 Jaya Upreti 2010 UGC-JRF 67 Nikita chopra 2011 USA-GRE 68 Shaikh Kashif 2012 UGC-JRF 69 Kirti 2012 CSIR-JRF 70 Durdana Yaseen 2012 NET-LS, UGC-JRF 2013 71 Komal Sharma 2013 UGC-JRF 72. Ravi Kumar Singh 2013 ICMR-JRF 73. Shruti Goel 2013 CSIR-JRF 74. Neha Saluja 2014 CSIR-JRF 75. Deepti Sharma 2014 CSIR-JRF 76. Ekta Dhamija 2014 CSIR-JRF 77. Mohsin Maseet 2014 NET-LS 78 Nematullah 2014 NET-LS 79 Surbhi Sharma 2014 UGC-JRF, CSIR-JRF 80. Mohammad Azhar 2014 UGC-JRF 81 Nudrat 2014 UGC-JRF 82 Virendra Kumar 2014 NET-LS 83. Juveria 2014 NET-LS 84. Kavita Sharma 2014 NET-LS


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36. Diversity of staff

S. No Percentage of faculty who are graduates (PhD) 1. of the same university 35% 2. from other universities within the State 7% 3. from universities from other States 50% 4. from universities outside the country 7%

37. Number of faculty who were awarded Ph.D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the assessment period 1. Nida Jameel ---2009

38. Present details of infrastructural facilities with regard to a) Library: We have a full fledge library at the campus. We are also in process to open a departmental library soon. b) Internet facilities for staff and students. Every faculty has full time access to internet through Wi-Fi and LAN facilities. Students can also access internet through wi fi and from 30 computers in the Computer room. c) Total number of class rooms: 4 d) Class rooms with ICT facility: 1 e) Students’ laboratories: 5 f) Research laboratories: 14

39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates Doctoral Students

S. No. Name of Supervisor and their Scholars

S.No Name of Supervisor and their Scholars

Prof. Jawaid Ahmad Khan 20. Sabbir Ansari 1. Ms. Shweta 21. Sumbul Afreen 2. Mr. Zainul Abdeen Khan 22. Belal Ahmad 3. Ms. Sameena Khatoon 23. Nazia Ahmad 4. Ms. Sadia Akhtar 24. Shaikh Mohd. kashif 5. Gazal Wamiq Prof. Seemi Farhat Basir

6. Razia Qadir

7. Mirza Sarwar Beg

Prof. Arif Ali 25. Mrs. Prerna Chaudhary 8. Ms. Shaista Sarvat 26. Ms. Nisha Thakur 9. Ms. Shagufta Nahid 27. Ms. Sweta Shaily 10. Mr. Salman Radkarim 28. Ms. Ruchi Gupta 11. Nimisha Patel 29. Ms. Rupal Sinha 12. Ashita A. Pinto 30. Ms. Jaya Upreti 13. Tanzeel 31. Ms. Shamama Nishat 14. Priyanka Bohra 32. Mohd. Tarique


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Prof. Tasneem Fatma Prof. Luqman Ahmad Khan 15. Mr. K Mahender 33. Mr. Sheikh Shreaz 16. Mr. Naveen Bharat 34. Ms. Neelofar 17. Ms. Fareha Bano 35. Ms. Deepa Anil Kumar 18. Mr. Razique Anwer 36. Ms. Rimple Bhatia 19. Ms. Shaheen Hussain 37. Ms. Snowber Yousuf 39. Ms. Hiba Shabir 38. Ms. Swati Kundu

Dr. Meryam Sardar 56. Ms. Veena Singh 57. Mr. Deepak Kumar

Prof. M. Moshahid Alam Rizvi 58. Mr. Razi Ahmad 40. Mr. Md. Irshad 59. Mr. Abhjeet Mishra 41. Mr. Feroz Akhtar 60. Ms. Nafeesa Khatoon 42. Ms. Priyanka Dr. Mohammad Aman Jairajpuri 43. Ms. Shilpie Biswas 61. Mr. Mohammad Asim 44. Ms. Zakia Kazim 62. Mr. Md. Sazzad Khan 45. Mr. Irfan Ahmad 63. Ms. Asma Naseem 46. Afreen Naseem 64. Ms. Qudsia Rashid 47. Zubair Bin hafeez 65. Ms. Charu kapil 48. Shanshah Khan 66. Mohd. Farhan Ali 49. Ankita Leekha 67. Teena Bhakuni Dr. Q. M.R. Haq Dr. Nikhat Manzoor 50. Mr. Mohiddin Khan Warsi 68. Ms. Amber Khan 51. Mr. Veer Bahadur Singh 69. Mr. Jitender Singh Verma 52. Md. Mudsser Azam 70. Ms. Ruchi Srivastava 53. Samreen sadaf 71. Ms. Edvina Thomas 54. Aftab Hussain Mondal 72. Sumit Kumar Rastogi 55. Kehkashan Siddiqui 73. Yamini Sharma 74. Mr. Mohd. Asad Dr. Mohammad Abid 75. Mohammad Irfan 76. Mohsin Khan

Post-Doctoral Students

S.No. Name of Student Name of Fellowship Name of Supervisor 1. Dr. Mohammad Akmal UGC-Kothari PDF Prof. Jawaid Ahmad Khan 2. Dr. Pravej Alam UGC-Kothari PDF Prof. Jawaid Ahmad Khan

3. Dr. M. Saliq Noorani DST- Young Scientist Prof. Jawaid Ahmad Khan 4. Dr. Sajjad Khan ICMR-Research

Associate Prof. M. Aman Jairajpuri

5. Dr. Kafeel A. Ansari UGC-Kothari PDF Prof. Tasneem Fatma 6. Dr. Maria Habib UGC-Kothari PDF Prof. Syed A. Hussain


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7. Dr. Shabana Parveen UGC-PDF (Women) 8. Dr. Darkshanda Neelam DST-Young Scientist 9. Dr. Asad Khan DST- Young Scientist Prof. Moshahid A. Rizvi 10. Dr. Syed H. Mehdi UGC-Kothari PDF 11. Dr. Rehana Qureshi UGC-Kothari PDF 12. Dr. Ayesha Aizaz Farid UGC-PDF (Women)

40. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the university. None 41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new programme (s)? If

so, highlight the methodology. • An expert committee consisting of external and internal experts is constituted for

assessment and design of programs; recommendations go to board of studies followed by faculty committee and academic council for consideration and approval.

42. Does the department obtain feedback from a. Faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how does the

department utilize the feedback? • All faculty members and some senior faculty members of other departments and

universities are member of board of studies which considers and approves the curriculum. b. Students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the department

utilize the feedback? • Head of the department routinely gets feedback from the students on the staff, curriculum

and teachers to monitor and incorporate their view in improving and monitoring progress. c. Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the department utilize the

feedback? • We have very active contact with our alumni and take special care in being in contact with

them. Input received from them is put before board of the studies of department for consideration.

43. List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10) S. No. Name of Alumni Affiliation 1. Dr. Shakir Ali Professor and Head, Department of Biochemistry, Hamdard

University New Delhi 2. Dr.Mohammad

Mahfuzul Haque Asstt. Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195 USA

3. Dr. Inamul Haque Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology Internal Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, and Research Biologist Cancer Research Unit VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO Tel: 816-861-4700x57126; Fax: 816-922-3320 Email: [email protected]; [email protected] www.vamccancerresearchunit.org


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4. Dr. Umesh Bageshwar

Assistant Research Professor Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX email: [email protected]

5. Dr. Inshad Ali Khan Scientist EI CSIR- Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu.

6. Dr. Urmi Bajpai Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Sciences, Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi

7. Dr. Zulfiqar Ahmad Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614

8. Dr. Zahid Ashraf Defence Research Development Organization (Govt of India), New Delhi

9. Dr. Anita Lal Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California,San Francisco, USA

10. Dr. Meena Kumari Deputy Director, SCERT, Manipur

44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar) involving external experts. Extension Lecture Series during 2008-2012 by the Department of Biosciences: S. No. Speaker Topic Year 1. Dr. Renu Batra, Safferling

Institut für Biologische Informationsverarbeitung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich 52428

Structural study on Herpes viral proteases

2008

2. Dr. V.K. Burnaval, Senior Scientist, Plant Virology Unit-2, Division of Plant Pathology, IARI, New Delhi–12

Detection of viruses and virus-like pathogens in plants with special reference to citrus

2008

3. Dr. Santosh K. Kar, Professor in Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology, JNU, New Delhi-110 067

Rational designing of tuberculosis vaccine

2008

4. Dr. Mausumi Bhardwaj, Asst. Director & Chief, Div. of Mol. Genetics, ICPO, NOIDA

Cancer and cancer vaccines 2008

5. Yogendra Singh, Virulence factors in Anthrax and tuberculosis

2008

6. Dr. Rajiv Bhatt, Professor in Biotechnology, School of

Issues and challenges in investigating folding of proteins

2008


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Biotechnology, JNU, New Delhi

7. Dr. Mohamad Aman Jairajpuri, Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences, JMI, New Delhi

Antithrombin: A bloody important serine protease inhibitor

2008

8. Dr. Mohammad Husain, Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences, JMI, New Delhi

HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN): role of HIV-1 genes

2008

9. Dr. M. Moshahid Alam Rizvi, Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences, JMI, New Delhi

Cancer genetics 2008

10. Dr. Mohd. Irfan Qureshi, Assistant Professor, Department of Biosciences, JMI, New Delhi

Molecular sociology of the cell 2008

11. Dr. T.K. Das, Department of Anatomy, AIIMS, New Delhi

Electron Microscopy: It’s application in biology

2009

12. Dr. Santosh K. Kar, School of Biotechnology, JNU, New Delhi

Immune system of plants, insects & humans: The lesson for vaccine development

2009

13. Dr. Shelly Praveen, Division of Plant Pathology, IARI, New Delhi

RNAi: Unfolding gene silencing 2009

14. Dr. Rajeev Bhatt, School of Biotechnology, JNU, New Delhi

Why study protein folding? Old issues and new challenges

2009

15. Dr. Nirupam Roy Chaudhary, Plant Molecular Biology Group, ICGEB, New Delhi

Geminivirus: An insight into its replication mechanism

2010

16. Dr. Sunil Jha, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi – 110 067

What is Sleep and why do we need it? 2010

17. Dr. R.K. Jain, Professor & Head, Division of Plant Pathology, IARI, New Delhi – 110 012

Moleuclar Diagnosis of Plant Pathogens 2010

18. Dr. Manoj Majee, National Institute of Plant Genomic Research, New Delhi.

Inosiltol metabolism in chickpen in perspective of abiotic stress responses

2010


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19. Extention Lecture Series, “ Recent Trends in Biosciences” 2011

2011

20. Extention Lecture Series, “ Recent Trends in Biosciences” 2012

Professor D. N. Rao (AIIMS) Dr. Arun K Sharma University of Delhi, South Campus Dr. Jameel Akhtar (NBPGR) Dr Agam P Singh (NII) Professor Swaraj Batra (MAMC) Professor M. Zainul Abdin (Jamia Hamdard,) Dr Shahid Jameel (ICGEB)

2012

21. Prof. SM Paul Khurana Amity University, Noida, UP

Recent Trends in Biotechnology 2014

22. Prof. AK Pandey Delhi University New Delhi

Biodiversity 2014

23. Prof Indrani Dasgupta Delhi University (South Campus)

Transgenic Resistance agents-Plant Viruses

2014

24. Prof. B. Jairam IIT, Delhi

Drug Designing and Discovery 2014

25. Dr. M. Irfan Qureshi Dept. of Biotechnology JMI

Plant Proteomics 2014

45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes. • Board/Chalk • Overhead Projection • LCD Projection • Quiz • Seminar Presentation

46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and learning outcomes are monitored?

• Feedback of alumni is taken regularly. • Monitoring of performance in national level exams like NET, GATE, CSIR-UGC-JRF,

ICMR-JRF, DBT-JRF, and others. • Compulsory Regular Internal Assessment tests. • A full-fledged coaching and career planning center functions in the University.

47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.

• Biofest is an annual event in Biosciences. It involves debates, science quiz, skits and painting competition based on various themes of life-sciences. Organization of extension lecture annually and renowned scientists are invited to deliver lectures.

• Students are deputed to undertake advanced research training.


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• Ms. Shweta, PhD student, was selected for Research Fellowship (8 months) awarded by Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), Govt. of India and Israel Govt. in the field of Agriculture to carry out research work in Israel. (Supervisor: Prof. Jawaid Ahmad Khan).

• Ms. Shamama Nishat, PhD student was selected for DAAD Fellowship (6 months) to carry out research work in Germany. (Supervisor: Prof. Seemi Farhat Basir).

• Participation in international conferences/awards. Ms. Poonam Singh and Mr. Mohammad Asim, both PhD student, presented paper in International Symposium on Chemistry and Biology of Serpin 2011 at University of North Carolina, USA and awarded best poster award (Supervisor: Dr. Aman Jairajpuri).

• Ms. Qudsia Rashid and Ms. Poonam Singh, both PhD student, presented paper in International Conference in Bioinformatics 2011, Center for Research in Interdisciplinary Basic Sciences. JMI, New-Delhi, India and awarded best poster and oral presentation award (Supervisor: Dr. Aman Jairajpuri).

48. Give details of “beyond syllabus scholarly activities” of the department. 1. Technical Writing 2. Seminars 3. Summer Training 4. Popular lectures by visiting scientists 5. Students Projects 6. Radio and talk shows on TV

49. State whether the programme/ department is accredited/ graded by other agencies? If yes, give

details. No

50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the department in generating new knowledge, basic or applied. Dr. Jawaid A. Khan

• Generation of RNAi-mediated resistance against cotton leaf disease • Genetic transformation

Dr. Tasneem Fatima • Stress physiology product development • Toxicology

Dr. Arif Ali • Mercury and antibiotic profiling and resistance

Dr. Seemi Farhat Basir • Development of anti-diabetic drug from natural sources.

Dr. Luqman A Khan • Development of more effective antifungal therapies.

Dr. Moshahid Alam Rizvi • Genomic and Epigenomic studies of human Cancer.

Dr Qazi Rizwan-ul Haq • Molecular Characterization of Viruses infecting different Plant Varieties and development


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of techniques for their identification. Dr. Meryam Sardar

• Metallic nanoparticles and their applications including optical/chemical sensors, electronic devices, and catalysts.

• Biomedical research applications of metallic nanoparticles. Dr. Mohamad Aman Jairajpuri

• Protein Structure Function and Diseases • Mechanism of activation of antithrombin and Synthetic activators of antithrombin • Antiangiogenic properties of serpin and Serpin polymerization

Dr. Nikhat Manzoor • Development of effective antifungal therapies.

Dr. Mohammad Abid • Designing and subsequent synthesis of potential antimicrobial agents. • Natural Product modifications • Small peptide synthesis (solution and solid phase)

Dr. Mohd. Mohsin • Development of FRET-based nanosensors. • Fluxomics of metabolites within the metabolic network.

51. Detail any five Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of the department.

Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences Strengths

• Multidisciplinary modern biology department with in-house expertise in pure and interface physics, chemistry and mathematics.

• Teaching and Research programmes capture entire spread of life sciences and our products are balanced and composite life scientist.

• Entire array of available equipments/technical expertise employed in life science under one roof, as against expertise/equipments scattered over several entities in other universities.

• Dedicated & Relatively young Faculty (Average age = 44 years) with no personality issues. Immense opportunities for collaborative research and long term projects/ programmes.

• Very strong sense of belonging for the department among the faculty members, non-teaching staff and alumni. Alumni of the department remain in constant touch and visit department.

Weaknesses • Lack of Animal House Facility seriously impedes researches in areas of biochemistry,

physiology, immunology, cancer biology, drug discovery and environmental/pollution biology etc.

• Several areas/specializations of biology have become full blown sciences (Biochemistry, Microbiology, Genetics etc.). Most universities have created full departments to do justice with these branches. We have just one teacher even in these developed areas. This precludes the possibility of having Grade-A practical/research infrastructure in these areas.

• The department has accumulated, through university & Extra-mural support, most departmental level research equipments and infrastructure. We definitely need an Advanced instrumentation facility with high end equipments/facilities being employed in frontier areas of biology. In


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most universities this is University level facility with equipments like: NMR, TEM, SEM, CD, Stop-flow, FACS, RTPC, LCMS, GCMS, protein isolation facility, Radioactive lab etc.

• Lack of field station (which is required for field test of new breeds/ GM crops) will hamper future research in Plant Tissue Culture & Molecular biology.

• Absence of interaction with relevant industries. Currently there is No mechanism at Department/University level for collaborative/Applied Research and training with industries. No interaction even between science and technology faculties in Jamia precluding the possibility of translating ideas/research into products. Many Central Universities have established University-Technology Transfer Centre to sustain and promote applied research & Technology transfer.

Opportunities • Interdisciplinary teaching and research • Induction of Bachelors and Master students from varied discipline of life and allied sciences. • Some labs/areas have progressed to an extent where after animal and field testing we can have

collaboration with industries. • Availability of diverse life science human and material resources at one department provides

opportunity for genesis of new interdisciplinary ideas and subjects. • The department is in a position to have joint programs with International Universities and

institutes. Challenges

• Shrinking catchment area due to coming up of several new public and private new universities in the country.

• The above may translate into poor feeder cadre. • There is positive correlation between quality learning process and students staying on campus.

There is need for additional/improved accommodation for students to match national/international standards.

• Life sciences is rapidly advancing field where teachers are required to upgrade themselves constantly. Constant encouragement/vigil/training opportunities will be required for updated delivery in classrooms and labs.

• Syllabi are required to be constantly updated and kept abreast with developing knowledge to ensure that the students remain competitive.

52. Future plans of the department. • Starting course of M.Sc. in Microbiology • Establishment of Animal House for research • Establishment of Field station for promoting Tissue culture research • Establishment of Advanced Research Instrumentation Facility • Technology Transfer Centre for applied research • Expansion of Department to a faculty of Life Sciences along the lines of other central

universities comprising of Departments of Biochemistry, Microbiology, Genetics & Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Biosciences. Focused Life Science programmes in collaboration with overseas universities

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